Spirit Soul Body Complex
1. The Lyke is the physical body it is a shell or physical collection of cells that exists in the physical part of the universe. The body a collection of organs organ systems cells this is the body. A person who embraces his spirit so his sprit permeates his flesh his body is called lyke this is an old Anglo Saxon word.
2. The Hamr is the spark or energy that wraps around the physical body sometimes referred to as the soul skin. In the sixties and seventies the aura was though to be discovered
3. The Feorh this is considered the life force or principle by some people it is considered the primal life force that existed before humans had evolved into their present form. Feorh is the primal life force in all living creatures trees bugs bacteria it is not uniquely human. This could be the source of the Christian idea that only humans have soul not animals but the heathen idea that everything has a soul. Every living creature has a Feorh but perhaps humans as they evolved and developed more intelligence and intellect their souls got more layers and more complex and additions to the Feorh where made.
4. The Hugr this is considered consciousness, thinking, the will. It is a collective consciousness that links all things together kind of like how the water in a pond touches and connects all the fish and all the living things in the pond. It is the conscious it knows all truth. In old sagas if a man was trying to seduce a woman he was said to first have to trick or distract her Hugr. The Hugr was the force of will. It could be directed out of the eyes of a person. The Hugr is the intelligent force of will in a person.
5. The Mod is considered individual personality mood temper. It is the passion the personality.
6. Myne is ancestral memory. This is similar to the concept that you can only remember what is already in you. It’s already there written in the DNA or in the experiences of your ancestors. It is a connection to the well of Wyrd. It is called metagenetics by modern science or racial memories or genetic memories. This is like a salmon who knows to swim up stream or a wasp that is born knowing how to make a paper nest or a beaver who is born knowing how to cut down trees and build a dam.
7. Ond-This is considered the life breath it was considered a separate thing from the body it is considered to begin when a child took his first breath.
8. Fetch this is sometimes referred to as a guardian angel or totem animal or spirit protector this is a kin or family member an ancestor who watches over you. The collective karma of your group family or clan, you’re guarding sprit. A protective force from your ancestors and family. My fetch is all the arctodus simus that every lived.
9. Orlog is the layers of deeds you have done in your life interacting with orlog make your wyrd or your personal fate. It is called karma in the Hindu religion. Orlog translates to mean primal law. Orlog is fundemental natural law even the gods cannot escape their wyrd which is interaction of their deeds with orlog. Orlog can be thought of as Natural law the most fundamental layer of the structure of the universe.
10. Wyrd is the layers of actions with the Orlog the impersonal fate of the universe. Your actions help weave your personal wyrd but it is still affected by the universes wyrd. For example a farmer in ancient Gaul may have his own personal wyrd but his wyrd is still connected to that of the roman empire which killed him and his family. Wyrd is sometimes represented as a tapestry woven by the 3 norns. Relationships of the individual with the universe and its events. What the 3 norns weave.
11. Hamingja this is personal luck or personal magic or personal power it is how well you manipulate Wyrd. The manifestation of your personal wyrd. What we make of your Wyrd. How well you manipulate that web of energy which surrounds everything in the universe. It has something to do with your fetch.
12. Wod- this is your ability to connect with the gods sometimes called divine inspiration or divine madness. Your ability to plug into the divine it is like the mod but plugged into the gods it is Mod of the group. Wod is to Mod as a group or alliance is to an individual. Wod is Mod with the Gods imput. It is to be in a passion but Mod is the passion in you.
13. Norns the 3 beings who weave wyrd Urd is sometimes called norn of the past or past wyrd forces behind events primal sources. That which is. Verdandi norn of the present that which is becoming or manifesting or coming into being. Skuld norn of the future skuld means should that which should become. These 3 being weave using the primal law of Orlog weave wyrd for everything men gods bugs.